Defense attorneys Friday attempted to show Atlanta detectives were originally on the right track in thinking Diane McIver’s shooting death was an accident, before prosecutors intervened and charged her husband with murder.

Defense lawyer Bruce Harvey pointed out, as the third week of testimony in McIver’s murder trial came to a close, that Atlanta Police Detective Darrin Smith had suggested during an interview with Dani Jo Carter early in the investigation that it was an accident. Carter is the sole witness to the shooting.